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Daily Change
The daily change in the price of a share or other security, i.e. the difference between the most rec...
Daily High
The highest price reached by a given security or index during a given day....
Daily Low
The lowest price reached by a given security or index during a given day....
Daily Official List
The daily record setting out the prices of all trades in shares and other securities conducted on th...
Daily Price Limit
The level within many commodity, futures, and options markets are allowed to rise or fall in a day. ...
Daisy Chain
Manipulation of the market by traders to create the illusion of active volume to attract investors....
Date Of Issue
1. Used in the context of bonds to refer to the date on which a bond is issued and when interest bei...
Date Of Payment
This is the date on which dividend cheques are mailed out....
Date Of Record
The date by which a shareholder must own shares in order to qualify for a dividend....
Dated Date
The date one uses to calculate accrued interest on various debt instruments, specifically bonds....
Dated Security
A fixed interest security which has a specified date for repayment (or redemption date)....
Dates Convention
Treating cash flows as being received on exact dates-date 0, date 1, and so forth-as opposed to the ...
Dawn Raid
The practice of buying shares in a potential target at the beginning of a trading day in the hope th...
Day Around Order
A day order that supersedes (cancels and replaces) the previous order by altering its size or price ...
Day Loan
A loan from a bank to a broker prior to the delivery of securities. Upon the delivery of the securit...
Day Order
An order placed with a broker to purchase or sell stock, a commodity or financial instrument at spec...
Day Trade
Also known as a "daylight trade." The purchase and sale or the short sale and cover of the same secu...
Day Trader
Day traders aim to make small profits on a large number of 'intra-day' transactions. They follow the...
Day Trading
Establishing and liquidating the same position or positions within one day's trading....
Days Of Grace
Additional days which may be allowed by a company to a debtor over and above the due date for paymen...
De facto
Existing in actual fact although not by official recognition....
De Minimis Limit
f a pension pays less than this limit, the whole of the member's share of the pension fund can be ta...
Dead Cat Bounce
A phrase used by traders to describe the phenomenon of any stock - even the most rapidly falling one...
Dead Cross
In technical analysis, what happens when the short moving average price of a stock (say, its 20-day ...
Deal
A transaction on a stock exchange by a broker or institution etc....
